56 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Jan., 1902. 
Cotton-tree (Hibiscus tiliaceous). Wood close-grained ; colour, invisible 
green; beautifully marked, easy to work, takes a good polish; resembles 
Pollard Oak. 
Johnstone River Red Beech (Zarrietia trifoliolata). Wood of a reddish 
colour, close-grained, and firm. Takes a fine polish. Cairns and Johnstone’ 
River, North Queensland. 
Cairns Satin-wood (Dysoxylon Pettigrewianum). Wood hard, outer wood 
yellowish, close-grained, and firm. North Queensland scrubs. 
Sour Plum (Owenta acidula). Wood reddish, close-grained, hard, but very 
easy to work. ‘Interior of Queensland. 
Barklya syringifolia. Wood blackish-grey, close in grain, and very tough. 
Scrubs of Southern and Central Queensland. 
Ringy Rosewood (Acacia glaucescens). Wood—sap-wood of a light yellow 
colour ; all the rest dark, resembling English walnut and rosewood, with trans- 
verse, wavy lines giving to a turned stick a ringed appearance; a very valuable 
wood for veneers; more or less fragrant. Northern and Southern Queens- 
land. 
Black Wattle (Acacia Cunninghamii). Wood of a dark colour, close- 
grained, hard, heavy, and prettily marked. Widespread in Queensland. 
Dead Finish (Albizzia basaltica). Wood towards the bark, bright yellow ; 
heart wood, dark red; close-grained, hard, and very beautiful. Inland Queens- 
land. 
Mr. F. M. Bailey, Government Botanist, considers all these, as well as 
many other scrub and forest woods, very valuable for veneers and cabinet: 
making. 
SOIL ANALYSES. 
Many farmers hold erroneous ideas as to the value of soil analyses. We 
hear farmers speaking as though they only required to have the soil analysed 
to know what manures to apply to certain crops to obtain the best returns. 
This, however, is far from being so. In the first case, as every farmer knows, 
it would be nearly impossible to obtain a sample that would fairly represent 
even a 10-acre field. Besides this, an analysis will only show what the soil 
contains ; it will not tell the farmer whether the plant food is in such a condi- 
tion that the plants can make use of it, neither will it tell him what treatment 
the soil requires to make that plant food available. So many other things have 
to be taken into consideration, such as the physical condition of the soil and 
subsoil, its ability to retain moisture or perhaps the reverse, that (except to the 
scientist) a soil analysis is just as likely as not to prove misleading in dealing 
with the manures such a soil requires. The only guide to the farmer is 
experience. Jind out what others have done under similar conditions, and 
prove by experiment whether the treatment beneficial in their case is equally so 
in yours.—S.A. Journal of Agriculture. 
